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Franken Bicycles?

04-16-2013, 08:12 AM

Hey all,

Just grabbed a little boys bike someone was tossing - I'm planning on hacking it up into a chopper-trike for my toddler son. Anyone done this or know someone and have pictures? experience? I've a mig and stick to work with - been reading about welding chromol but believe this is mild steel - it's HEAVY! Anyway - end of the day I put it out with the trash as well - but thought I'd have some fun with it - first!

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This brings back memories! As a kid we'd hack the forks off a 'parts' bike and drive them onto the forks of a working bike, add a small tire up front, big slick in the back, ape hangers and the biggest sissy bar we could find. A can or three of spray paint finished this masterpiece off. LOL, I think it's somewhat less than you were looking for though.

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I bought a set of hacked off fork tubes off my buddies bike for a dollar when i was like 14. Pounded them on my bike and had a wicked chopper bike. Unstable as heck but it looked good. Then one day i was riding thru the schoolyard trying to impress the new girl and the tubes came off my forks. Yup i went butt over tea kettle and was bleeding pretty good. I drug my busted bike about 30 yards home and was getting cleaned up when a knock at the door. It was the girl bringing back my front wheel and the sawed off fork tubes. Guess i should have bolted them on my fork. Never saw the girl again either....Bob

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This brings back memories! As a kid we'd hack the forks off a 'parts' bike and drive them onto the forks of a working bike, add a small tire up front, big slick in the back, ape hangers and the biggest sissy bar we could find. A can or three of spray paint finished this masterpiece off. LOL, I think it's somewhat less than you were looking for though.

this is pretty much what I will be doing...just hacking together some things to make a trike out of it....prob even put a bench or two bucket seats on it to .... Have some fun..and if its a wreck just chop it up and put it in the trash! Lol